Democratic Party Becomes Party Of Corruption

Impunity: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was accused of bribery last weekend, while two Obama Cabinet officials are leaving amid a trail of broken laws and squandered cash. Which, again, is the party of corruption?

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So with a White House that rules by executive order and blithely ignores budget deadlines as its divine right, it's no surprise that a culture of impunity has taken hold through the Democratic Party in the Obama economy.

We're not talking about incompetence, or about policy errors, which are abundant as well in the Obama administration, but evidence of wrongdoing for personal and political advantage. That's what's going unscrutinized and undoubtedly unpunished, all because Democrats have the political "juice" to evade the law.

Over the weekend, Jeremy Johnson, a Utah businessman, leveled a serious charge that the second-most powerful Democrat after the president, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, was a beneficiary of what he called "a bribe" of $600,000 through the state's new attorney general to make a federal investigation of his IWorks company "go away."

"Senator Reid has no knowledge or involvement regarding Mr. Johnson's case," said Reid spokeswoman Kristen Orthman, in a statement. "These unsubstantiated allegations implying Senator Reid's involvement are nothing more than innuendo and simply not true."

Maybe not, but we can't think of anything more deserving of an investigation.

After all, who would a Mormon power broker from the mountain states go to in Washington to make a Federal Trade Commission probe go away?

That might be the man who has already shown a shady willingness to enrich himself and his family, such as the federal payout to a Chinese company affiliated with Reid's son for "green" projects last year, along with other questionable land deals. It also might be the man who showed a willingness to lie about a fellow Mormon, then-GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in a completely false claim that he cheated on his taxes.

That's the kind of man Harry Reid is. With new allegations of bribery, he's likely to avoid media, congressional or White House scrutiny as he has in the past.

Yet he's not the only one in this Obama economy whose behavior, well, raises serious ethical questions.

Two others, both Obama Cabinet members, seem to be leaving one step ahead of scrutiny of their stewardship of their respective offices.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson appears to have blatantly broken the law by maintaining secret email accounts to evade public scrutiny of her activities.

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